Tristan Chong

Computational Linguist | Software Engineer

San Francisco

ABOUT

Learning is my lifeblood, and I have a voracious appetite for intellectual challenge. I'm formally trained in linguistics, with experience in natural language processing, software scaling, and distributed systems. Outside of work, I enjoy museums, burritos, post-rock, dystopian fiction, and forcing puns upon the ears of unsuspecting listeners.

Maintaining training and testing corpora, using Python and the Natural Language Toolkit to automate tasks such as crowdsourced data collection, text normalization, production of canonical forms via stemming, morphosyntactic operations, and creation of use cases for regression testing

Writing interaction guides in YAML to manage dialogue states and conversation flow

Localizing existing applications to different languages, regions, and target markets